All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. Best
- I was with book, as a woman is with child. Book
- Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his… Attended
- [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. Assumption
- When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of… Alert
- The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)... Changes
- To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… Airless
- It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. Dirt
- It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. Always Picture
- There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. Boy
- Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning... Atheism
- The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. Belief
- Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when… All
- Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only… All
- God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker. Any
- She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. Expression
- If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed. Conceited
- A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. Book
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the… Age
- Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you! All
- To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern… Clear
- A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something… Always Looking
- Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm. Abnormal
- Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ." Born
- He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) Aslan